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UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold the third phase of “Developing Green Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Africa: Strengthening Food Security, Supporting Climate Resilient Economies” in Japan from 26 February to 1 March 2024.
The top 24 learners from Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe will visit Tokyo and Hiroshima for the in-person workshop and study tour.
The Green Livelihoods programme aims to empower women and youth by building their entrepreneurial and digital knowledge and skills to develop sustainable and climate-resilient businesses.
, 22 February 2024, H...
Dr. Mawadah Arif Hammadi is preparing a project to raise breast cancer awareness among disadvantaged women in Iraq.
She joined the UNITAR Great Ideas Space 2023: Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Promoting Health Security and Economic Development in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon programme to learn about entrepreneurship and gain the skills she needs to make her project sustainable.
, 23 May 2024, Hiroshima, Japan – In the heart of Baghdad Medical City is a woman dedicated to improving Iraqi health care: Dr. Mawadah Arif Hammadi. As a junior resident physician, ...
Tabu Elder and Baria Johnson Kibo are two of nearly 100 young South Sudanese professionals who took part in the 2020–21 UNITAR Building Bridges: Entrepreneurship and Project Planning in South Sudan Programme.
The online programme is financially supported by the government and the people of Japan and conducted with the institutional support of the government of South Sudan.
Tabu is now passing on what she learned through volunteer teaching of entrepreneurs and hopes to create a community project in water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Baria ran a needs assessment in her...
Geneva, 16 April 2020
Excellencies, Friends of UNITAR,
We, the Board of Trustees of UNITAR, are deeply concerned about the profound impacts and disruptions being caused by COVID-19. Our concern is first and foremost for the immediate human loss and suffering especially for those who face the most vulnerabilities in withstanding the shocks. But beyond this we know that the economic and social upheavals that the pandemic is generating will last for a long time. We endorse the UN Secretary-General’s urgent call for action and with this statement share the vision of UNITAR in...
The meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, holds July of each year; including a three-day ministerial meeting of the forum. Effective implementation of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs will require access to knowledge and information, not only for policy makers and leaders to design well-informed and effective policies and strategies, but also for committed and engaged individuals around the world to guarantee that no one is left behind.
Each year during the High Level Politica...
8 October 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in partnership with SKL International, with the support of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will deliver an e-Learning course, “The SymbioCity Approach: Achieving Urban Sustainability in Asian Cities”, from 12 November 2012 to 15 February 2013.
The e-course aims at contributing to sustainable urban development in the Asia-Pacific Region (five target countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam) by supplying urban planners, environmental…
26-27 November 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa - UNITAR in collaboration with eThekwini Municipality, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Durban (CIFAL Durban) and AB InBev, hosted the two-day “Road Safety Africa Conference” in Johannesburg.
These road traffic–related deaths and injuries have unparalleled health and socioeconomic implications on society, particularly in areas with such high rates of death and injury. Given this, United Nations member states have set the goal of reducing road traffic deaths and injuries by 50 percent by the yea...
Building for Peace
Launch of the International Architectural Prize in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Hiroshima, 24 April 2009
An initiative by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will launch on 24 April, in Hiroshima, the International Architectural and Urban Planning Prize in Post-Conflict Reconstruction, to be awarded on a biannual basis by an international jury....
April 12th, 2011 marked a new milestone in the history of the cooperation between UNITAR and the Municipality of Plock Poland. On this date, Mr. Carlos Lopes, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNITAR Executive Director, and Mr. Andrzej Nowakowski, Mayor of Plock, signed a new partnership agreement which further strengthens ties between the two entities through the activities delivered by CIFAL Plock, the International Taining enter for Local actors located in Plock.
CIFAL Plock is coordinated locally under a partnership between the City of Plock and UNITAR. It started its…
Mapping Damage and Preparing for Reconstruction after the Marawi Conflict in the Philippines
18 August 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - On 23 May 2017 an armed conflict broke out in Marawi, Lanao del Sur in the Philippines between non-state armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Philippine government security forces. The conflict has displaced nearly 360,000 people from Marawi City and surrounding municipalities. According to local news sources, nearly 700 combatants and 119 civilians have died as a result of the fighting.
On 21…